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Analysis Darren McGarvey interviews a number of guests in his new four-part series including Hugo Rifkind, the son of a Tory grandee CLASS is one of the defining concepts of life, Scotland and capitalism – but barely receives much informed analysis on our TV screens. Instead, we are offered unstated but loaded assumptions in news, TV documentaries and countless other programmes, with a distinct bias on how success, aspiration and failure are seen and judged. In today’s environment Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars – a new four-part series on BBC Scotland – is a breath of fresh air, t...

‘ALL my life, people have been insisting that social class is no longer relevant” Darren McGarvey says in the opening of Class Wars, a new documentary series whose first episode aired on BBC Scotland this week. Darren’s mission? To “prove to you just how entrenched social class is in Scotland”. The hook for episode one is a personal sense of crisis. With the success of his book Poverty Safari, he now finds he has “been afforded the very lifestyle I spent much of my life slagging off”. So what now? I was once one of those people who would have strongly resisted this kind of c...

STV/STV Player *** OF all the reasons for taking a long hard look at yourself, being attacked by Piers Morgan ought to be at the bottom of a very long list. The Good Morning Britain presenter operates at the pig’s bladder on a stick level of journalism, there for amusement – if that’s your kind of whoopee cushion thing – rather than edification. Yet as we saw in Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars, the first of a four-part series, it was Morgan calling him a “raging lunatic” that led to a bout of soul-searching for the eponymous author and rapper.

Darren McGarvey 'proves' social class divisions are 'entrenched' in Scotland' in new TV show In the four-part series, he dons tweeds at Edinburgh’s Lauriston Castle, goes grouse shooting and gets acquainted with cricket and polo. Darren McGarvey at Lauriston Castle (Image: BBC Scotland) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other r...

12/28/2020 2:55:47 PM GMT In the middle of 2020, foreign investors owned a little more than $13 trillion more of US assets (stocks, bonds, and brick-and-mortar) than Americans owned of foreign assets.  It is the other side of chronic current account deficits, the broad measure of trade.  By this measure, the US is the world's largest debtor.  It spurs much teeth-gnashing angst for reformists of all stripes.   Not so fast, says Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein in their book, "Trade Wars are Class Wars."  They tell us that the problem is not that the US lives beyond its means, but other co...